Welcome To My Garden Blog…

Working in the garden, looking and admiring nature, watching how organisms interact all feed my inner being. Getting my hands into the soil connects me with the earth.

This is probably why I am so drawn to work in clay (porcelain and other earth clays).

Here in my Mid-Atlantic, US garden, which is considered Hardiness Zone 7A by the USDA, Spring is here and will soon be coming to a close.

I have cleared most of the Coneflowers and Black Eyed Susans that had Aster yellows and am keeping a close eye for other plants showing symptoms this year.

I am delighted to say that I am again, falling in love with my garden. 2011 growing season stuck a fork right through my heart, and I am happy it is now in the past and nature is taking her turn at moving things forward into the 2012 growing season...

Saturday, May 2, 2009

These weeds are in full bloom, and I have made a decision that this year I will do my best to pull them from the woods behind my house so they do not suffocate the May Apples, Jack in the Pulpit, and other native April/May plants...

Here are some Violets that are all over the place - I don't pull these!

I just started to see snail shells this year in the garden.

Maybe I just hadn't looked for them before...

Little white and pink blooming flowers in the woods

(will have to figure out what their name is... Anyone?)

Some of my small iris ground cover...

An old tree stump in the woods...

The old wood pile... love the patterns that the wood makes - new texture maybe?

Mushrooms from the forrest floor...

Lady Ferns emerging getting ready to unfold their delicate fronds...

they are greeting the morning sun...

These are some of my wood or autumn ferns which are a bit larger ferns...

Looking up through the dogwood tree in bloom, in the morning...

Facing Northwest - Hi Joan and Lana!!!

A bleeding heart plant...

And one of my favorite surprises to find in our woods...

The Jack in the Pulpit...

Last year I found some Jack seeds and researched how to propagate them.

Basically, remove the outer red juicy covering, and plant...

So if that worked, I should see quite a few showing up in the garden and not just in the woods.